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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%). Again, we found differences among industries.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In healthcare, the firm focuses on the enormous and fast-growing sectors of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology. THE BRATTLE GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. The Brattle Group focuses on electric power, financial institutions, natural gas, petroleum, telecommunications and media, and transportation. Office Locations.

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Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse

Harvard Business

The exercise requires the group to formulate and execute a strategy to achieve a specified outcome, against the clock. We worked with a startup biotechnology company. When its R&D team members tried our strategy execution task, they performed terribly. There is a familiar saying: “We recruit in our own image.”